MIT Deep Learning Basics: Introduction and Overview with TensorFlow

As part of the MIT Deep Learning series of lectures and GitHub tutorials, we are covering the basics of using neural networks to solve problems in computer vision, natural language processing, games, autonomous driving, robotics, and beyond. This blog post provides an overview of deep learning in 7 architectural paradigms with links to TensorFlow tutorials for each. It accompanies the following lecture on Deep Learning Basics as part of MIT course 6.S094: Deep learning is representation learning: the automated formation of useful representations from data. How we represent the world can make the complex appear simple both to us humans and to the machine learning models we build. My favorite example of the former is the publication in 1543 by Copernicus of the heliocentric model that put the Sun at the center of the "Universe" as opposed to the prior geocentric model that put the Earth at the center.